Hello again,
I hope your day is going well.
Here is this week's update from the Discovery department.
== Search ==
* Mikhail completed a review of the language-identification A/B test (using
TextCat). The full report is on Commons. [1]
* Trey has more language-identification–related stuff: notes on how to
introduce confidence to TextCat [2] (comments and ideas especially
welcome!), a re-review of the languages of poorly performing queries on
English Wikipedia [3] using our now-standard corpus creation process (TL;
DR: quite similar to earlier results); and similar first-time reports for
Portuguese and Russian Wikipedias [4], with Japanese and Indonesian in the
pipeline.
* Trey and Jan collaborated on a new design of the TextCat demo [5]
* Team discussing deploying the new TextCat language detection to wikis:
en, it, fr, de, es with more language wikis to come in the future [6]
* a cute picture of a cat and dog, just because [7]
== Maps ==
* Map's geoshapes service is now available in graphs: Interactive maps with
regions [8]
* Wikivoyage map customizations have moved into the extension code, now
available on all WV languages. Customize it via MediaWiki:Kartographer.js
and MediaWiki:Kartographer.css [9] [10]
==
Wikipedia.org Portal==
* Conversation with the community continuing for new
Wikipedia.org portal
page layout with a new language by article count dropdown. [11]
** The page has been translated, so far, in 8 languages and posted on
various Village Pump sites;
** a new working prototype has been added [12]
** and a new mock up design has been added which was based off of community
feedback. [13]
* Released findings and conclusions of the recent survey ran on the
Wikipedia.org portal page - how did you arrive at Wikipedia - that also
contains good feedback on the portal design page, the sister project links
with descriptive text, search and usage on various platforms. [14]
* Conversation with the community on handling search queries with question
marks also continues [15]
** this page has been translated into 5 additional languages
* Team conversations started about how to package portions of the wikipedia
portal page to make it easier to re-use across all projects that want it.
[16]
* Team conversations started about how to automate stats updates on the
wikipedia portal page [17]
== Events and News==
* Erik was promoted to Senior Software Engineer, yay!
* Discovery Quarterly review was held [18]
* Geo Search was launched by the Discovery Search team on behalf of the
Reading team [19]
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Report_on_Cirrus_Search_TextCat_AB_…
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_and_Confiden…
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Re-optimizat…
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Optimization…
[5]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/textcatdemo/
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121541
[7]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foxteriér_a_kocúr.jpg
[8]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Country_with_regions_and_capi…
[9]
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Kartographer.js
[10]
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Kartographer.css
[11]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout
[12]
https://people.wikimedia.org/~jdrewniak/collapsed-languages/index.html
[13]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org_portal_more_languages_but…
[14]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Discovery_-_Wikipedia.org_Portal_Study_…
[15]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discovery/Handling_question_marks_in_search…
[16]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136151
[17]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140159
[18]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gVXPwLtUZc1H5V82wv1TJU-abmmfaZkXYlo…
[19]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Geo_Search
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The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on
Mediawiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
